The Definitive Guide to Comedy
Has any stand-up comedian performed more stand-up sets on David Letterman’s shows than Jake Johannsen? Think about it for a moment. Johannsen has performed more than 40 times on Letterman’s late-night shows, dating back to his NBC Late Night overnights in the 1980s. For his first appearance on Late Show …
What’s happening in the comedy world now… Christina Applegate abruptly left the NBC sitcom Up All Night, while the show is on hiatus to be retooled as a multi-cam for planned new episodes this spring. No word on whether her role will be recast and how that it’ll impact her …
Get out of town, it’s a new Between Two Ferns with Zach Galifianakis! It might have been Grammy night where you were, but here on the Internet, it’s all about the Academy Awards and the Oscar buzzzzzzzzzzz. Galifianakis and Funny or Die have five times the fun in this special …
I’m using hi-def recording equipment to replace all of the screams from this week’s Saturday Night Live so I can figure out what the comedians were saying to host and musical guest Justin Bieber, as well as why Whoopi Goldberg was there. Once understood, then we can recap this and …
And you thought February was Black History Month. In the world of FX’s Totally Biased with W. Kamau Bell, it’s also a great time to share great moments in black hisptery. And whom better to break it all down for us than Reggie Watts? Or as Watts tells us, “Gilda …
Rachel Dratch recalls watching the first season of Saturday Night Live as a nine-year-old growing up in Massachusetts. “I was sleeping over at a friend’s house. She had an older brother who was watching it. I was immediately clicked into this, ‘What is this?!’ I was just fascinated by it. …
Darryl Lenox performed on Thursday night’s episode of Conan. Lenox joked about his formerly poor eyesight — can you make a joke that goes from Cookie Monster to Halle Berry to German porn in three easy steps? — the dangers in undergoing surgery to fix his eyes, and what happens …
When the surviving members of Monty Python reunited to celebrate their 40th anniversary with a documentary that aired on IFC in 2009, that was a Monty Python reunion. When they lent their voices to a documentary about the late Graham Chapman last year, that was a Python reunion of sorts, though …
Can you tell a pedophilia joke on network television? Kurt Metzger did. On his second appearance on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon, Metzger not only stunned the studio audience on Wednesday night’s program with a bit about how one Toddlers and Tiara mom unwittingly turned off would-be pedophiles, but also …
February must not only be Sweeps Month but also Cop Show Month at the show business factories where they manufacture new comedy videos, because I’ve already received two such entries already in the past week. First up, “Perp Justice.” AKA Cop Show Drug Test, on Funny or Die. In this …
